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>> greed, a sense to do better in life, to have a better life. >> the most patriotic thing you can do as an american get filthy rich and pay a lot in taxes so we can do all the things we talked about. >> this conversation will continue after we continue to roll, i have a feeling. good night. good night. tonight, new details out of afghanistan after a weekend of attacks targeting the military. and what seems to be an alarming new trend when an ally, supposedly a friend, kills the troops who are training him.
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plus, chilling words from a man who said he did just that. >> translator: they took off their body armor and put their weapons down. at that moment i thought it was the right time, so i took my gun and shot them. >> then, the catholic church and the e-mail faux pas that got them sued. >> when you are caught with your pants down you have to say something. all that, plus a man without a party and a matter of bad timing or no tact in tonight's "no talking points." hello, everybody. i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. we will get you up to speed on today's headlines. chicago teachers accused of tonight of breaking the law. it is the latest development in the city's week-long teachers strike. rahm emanuel says he will file an injunction to force teachers back to work.
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the teachers union postponed a vote until tuesday on a tentative contract deal. that is less than five minutes here on cnn. four service members shot to death by somebody wearing a afghan police uniform. it is the third time in three days that afghan forces have turned their weapons on nato troops and killed them. we'll have the latest from afghanistan in just a moment. this is karachi, pakistan, police pushing protesters away from the american consulate, they are furious about that film, made in the u.s., that muslims say makes fun of their religion. the same anger sparked a violent protest in libya that resulted into the deaths of a u.s. ambassador and three others. u.s. officials are still trying to determine if the libya attack was complex and preplanned or spontaneous. a senior u.s. senator says
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there's no doubt in his mind. >> most people don't bring rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons to a demonstration. that was an act of terror. >> susan rice, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations told reporters she believes a rocket attack in benghazi was a spur of the moment act, carried out by extremisextremists. explosions shook the suburbs of damascus today. opposition groups report that 167 people were killed across the country. three straight days, three separate deadly attacks on nato forces in afghanistan, not by obvious taliban fighters or
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al qaeda but by infiltrators acting alone or in groups often wearing the uniform of nato's allies. here's cnn's anna coren in kabul. >> reporter: it's been a deadly weekend here in afghanistan, two more green-on-blue attacks, having afghan soldiers turning on the coalition forces training them. early sunday morning four american soldiers were killed after an afghan police officer turn his weapon on them. this follows an attack on two british soldiers who were killed on saturday. this is an alarming trend for coalition forces who have already lost 51 soldiers this year as a result of green-on-blue attacks compared to 35 last year. in other tragic news, nato claimed responsibility for a deadly air strike that's killed eight afghan women, wounding seven others. anger broke out in the streets in response to this attack. it's believed these women were only picking up firewood at the time of the strike.
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they send deepest regrets and sympathy for the loss of innocent life. >> stay right there. in just a few minutes we'll go back to afghanistan where anna has a cnn exclusive. she met a man that says he was trained by u.s. soldiers to be a police officer and then turned his gun on those troops and killed them. mayor rahm emanuel says i will not stand by while the children of chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union. this continued action by union leadership is illegal on two grounds, it is over issues that are deemed by state law to be nonstrikable and it endangers the health and safety of our children. just hours ago, the teachers union delayed a vote on the proposed teachers contract until at least tuesday. cnn's kyung lah has more. >> reporter: the strike continues here in chicago.
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that is the decision by the teachers yawn ondelegation after a lengthy and what we are told, at times a contentious meeting. when that means for the 350,000 students here in chicago, the third largest in the country, they are going back to members to discuss what we are told are a lengthy and complicated krlt. >> they're not happy with the agreement. they would like it to be better for us than it is. i mean, clearly, contract is always a set of negotiations. no sides are ever completely happy but our members are not happy and they want to have the opportunity to talk to their members to see, they still want to know, is there anything more they can get? >> disappointment because i wanted to spend some time with my students again tomorrow. i understand i'll have to be patient about that. >> reporter: details of the contract that we've on tenned from the chicago public schools, elementary students will be gaining 1.5 hours, high school
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students will be gaining a half hour on the school day. all students gaining two additional weeks for the school year. principals will retain authority to hire teachers of their choice and for the very first time, layoff decisions will be based on performance. the union delegates will return tuesday evening and decide then whether or not the strike continues. don? >> thank you. if schools are closed where do all the students go? chicago school board president says 147 sites will be open side citywide for the students. and there are programs run by the neighborhoods. and a man says he turned on the u.s. troops training him. his story is next. >> they took off their body armor and put their weapons down, at that moment i thought it was the right time, so i took my gun and shot them. ♪ i can do
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the military has a term, green-on-blue. they use that when a supposed ally, a friend of nato force for some reason kills the troops training him. you're about to see and hear the voice of a man who says he killed americans. he says he went on patrol with u.s. troops, took his gun and shot them. cnn's anna coren met him and asked him, simply why he did it. >> reporter: in a small house in a taliban-controlled village is
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a man who claims to be responsible for a green-on-blue attack. with his face covered to hide his identity he pulls out his police uniform, something he hasn't worn since the attack on the 2nd of october, 2009. on patrol with u.s. forces in central afghanistan, this father of two says he waited for an opportunity to launch his premeditated attack. "the americans went inside the nearby school for a break" he explains. they took off their body armor and put their weapons down. at that moment i thought it was the right time, so i took my gun and shot them. two soldiers were killed. 25-year-old sergeant aaron smith and 21-year-old private first class brandon owens. three other soldiers were injured, including captain tyler kerth. when asked why he turn his gun on the u.s. soldiers training him, he said, because americans were oppressing people in my
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country, burning copies of the holy koran and disrespecting it. having escaped from the scene he claims he was later capture by the taliban who thought he was a policeman. when i told them i had killed americans they took me to a safe place, gave me new clothes, then they drove me to another place in pakistan where the taliban welcome me warmly, look a hero. he says he later moved to iran for three years, returning to afghanistan only recently after being told it was safe. they said americans were not everywhere like they used to be. the taliban brought security and i should return home. i'm happy to be back in my country. green-on-blue or insider attacks as they are known within military have sharply increased this year here in afghanistan. it's an alarming trend that has coalition forces extremely worried and every single time there is an attack the taliban immediately claims responsibility. >> the taliban lie, we know they lie. we think they overstate their influence on these tragic
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incidents. we think somewhere around 25% of them are insurgent-related to some degree. >> reporter: the majority of attacks according to the coalition are related to personal grievances, cultural differences. and the psychological fatigue of an 11-year war that is about to enter its 12th year. while trust has been undermined, forcing new measure to protect international troops, afghanis are determined to ensure these insider attacks don't it the derail this vital partnership. >> we'll continue to work together. we have been working for the last 11 years. we have built a good relationship together and this will continue, despite any effort by the taliban to make us separate. that will not happen. >> reporter: for this 30-year-old afghani, he believes these attacks won't stop. . i know they will increase, i know more people will do what i did, he says. anna coren, cnn, kabul.
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the political lines to blur more and more every year. some folks leave one party and become independents and then there are those who take it one step further. people are going to ask, you're supporting president obama, why are you independent? his answer, my conversation with the former florida governor, next. and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd, and you still need to retire. td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $600 when you open a new account or roll over an old 401(k). so who's in control now, mayans?
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buddy roemer and gary johnson, two former republican governors who recently come on the show to explain why they left the party and become political independents. now add charlie crist to the list. the former florida governor is also now an independent. some wonder if that's temporary. after all, he endorsed president obama at the democratic convention. i asked him what caused him to make the switch. >> as i said at the convention, i didn't leave the republican party. the republican party left me.
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much in the fashion that ronald reagan once talked about when referring to the democratic party, that he didn't leave the party, the party at that time had left him. i felt the same way with the republicans. you know, it's just a matter of, you look at policies and positions and the things that are important to me, and the principles that i always stood on, you know, education, ethics, the environment, the economy, immigration policy that is progressive. >> you know the florida pizza shop owner that gave the president the bear hug, and you went to the same pizza shop and got the same hug and pose, and the reason i'm asking that, it happened to the president. many people are going to say, charlie crist is doing this just like he did in that photograph, he is being opportunistic. it's an opportunity to increase his visibility. what do you say to that? >> they are dead wrong. >> there are people who will say that you staged that photograph, you staged the same pose, and the same hug. what do you say to them?
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>> well, like i said, that's not true. i mean, the reason i went there wasn't to do the hug, although, you know, he felt compelled to do it and i was grateful that he felt that way. the reason i went there was to encourage him. he had been getting death threats, believe it or not, for supporting our president. he says, charlie, you can't imagine the kind of threats i have been getting simply by being nice and decent to the president. i said, actually i can. it happened to me a couple years ago when the president came to ft. meyers, and that's when i started to see the intolerance of the former party rear its ugly head. and that's just not right. >> people will ask you are supporting president obama, and why are you independent? why don't you just become a democrat? >> i don't know. my wife already has. it may not be too far in the offing. the important thing to me is not the politics of it but to
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support the man i've gotten to know over the last four years, even as a republican governor, what he did during the oil spill, he put people above politics and did not care, and he helped us with the teachers and firefighters and law enforcement officers with the recovery act, and time and again he has been there to help florida, and i saw it up close and personal. he even tried to give us a high speed rail, but unfortunately ideology got in the way of that and it was not accepted by the current administration in tallahassee but the president's a good man. he's a good and decent human being. he's been a good leader for our country and i'm honored to support him and try and help him here in the sunshine state. >> so jeb bush said this about your decision to run for the senate as an independent in 2010. he organized his life around his personal ambition and ran in a primary where he was the odds on favorite. marco rubio cleaned his clock and beat him in the general and now he's trying to find a way to get back into the political game. it has nothing to do with
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principles or ideas, and he goes on to talk about you. what do you say to that? >> he's a delightful fellow. i think what's important is, i'm not going to respond to that negativity. there's no place for it in our society. that stuff is exactly what we have to get away from. the people in our country want people to work together for the common good. they don't appreciate those kinds of attacks, those ad homonym personal attacks. it felt exhilarating to be in charlotte. >> you think the extremes of the party have too much influence on the party? >> yes, they've hijacked it. there's no question about it. the republican party has been hijacked by an extreme ideological point of view that is pretty intolerant, relatively unaccepting, trying to take away a lot of people's voting rights,
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reducing funding of public education and help teachers, doing the kinds of things that i never thought were important. i was proud at the time to be from a party of abraham lincoln and teddy roosevelt. but remember, teddy roosevelt left the party at one time, too. this is not a new thing. i mean, when a party gets hijacked by an extreme ideology, those of us who feel like they're more mainstream almost have a commitment to ourselves and an obligation to our soul to do what's right and take a different path. that's what i've done. >> my thanks to charlie crist. we've heard it before, be careful what you post online. yet it still happens. next, a facebook faux pas gets a replacement referee placed.
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wait until you here this nfl story.
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he was supposed to be a replacement ref working the new orleans game, and turns out he posted pictures of himself at a saints pre-season game tailgating. the nfl found out just this morning and the replacement ref was, well, replaced. the league was no doubt embarrassed. saints by the way loss to carolina. earlier i spoke with terrance moore, a contributor to cnn.com and also a columnist with mlb.com. we talked a little football but started with baseball. i asked him with the big money yankees in a huge battle with the baltimore orioles, is new york going to be able to pull this one out and make the playoffs? >> they better pull it out. this is their last hoorah with this particular dynasty. you have mark teixeira who has been injured most of the year, derek jeter, and this is the last chance to get it right, and they could. >> the yankees with the
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playoffs, that's supposed to happen. you ask what is wrong with the world? >> this is like 1964, they had maris and mantle. >> the nfl now, the latest on the soap opera on the players that got their suspensions lifted. what are we going to expect? >> we will see roger goodell fighting for his dictator life this week. >> did you call roger a dictator, terrance? >> he is but that's a good thing. when the three-panel group ruled against him for bountygate, that took away his power. he wants to get that powerback. >> his unchecked power, right? >> yeah, and last week, he said they didn't take away my power. here is the thing, don. he needs that power, because all these commissioners need to be dictators. democracies work great for countries but you need them for professional sports. >> you need a dictator like roger goodell? >> that's exactly right. >> oh, my goodness. what do you think of the saints official? >> i think that's pretty funny. that's exactly what they
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deserve, because they are not bringing back the regular referees. they still lost. they needed that guy then. >> he could play defense and help them out a little bit. when there was such a need to do things right for the fallen in libya, one candidate got it wrong. that's tonight's "no talking points." you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account.
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time now for "no talking points." tonight, a rush to judgment, and then lying to cover it up. on wednesday morning, we woke up to this. >> the white house has now confirmed the u.s. ambassador to libya, chris stevens, has been killed. >> president obama condemns the attack that killed four americans in libya. >> the violence there, and at the u.s. embassy in cairo is being fueled by an anti-muslim video made here in the united states. >> u.s. marines being called in as reinforcements at the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> before most of us could wipe the sleep from our eyes, before we had even heard about the attacks and the death, the romney campaign had drafted a critical statement saying, the
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obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomat missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. okay. here's the problem with that. the romney statement was sent to reporters just after 10:00 p.m. on tuesday with a caveat it not be released until after midnight. it was sent before many of the facts were gathered. the statement is wrong, because the obama administration's official statement from the secretary of state released just before the romney statement, reads like this. i condemn in the strongest terms, the attack on our mission in benghazi today. our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation but let me be clear, there is never any justification for violent attacks of this kind. clinton's statement, in no way apologizes nor sympathizes with the attackers. anyone who tells you it did is lying.
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if you believe that it did, you are misguided. even a statement that was released earlier from the embassy in cairo never sympathized nor apologized yet in the following hours and days, instead of correcting course, the romney campaign doubled down. >> a terrible course for america to stand in apology for our values. >> in an effort to do damage control, imagine this, they even contacted us, the media, to make their surrogates available to us. and then they proceeded to come on air and blame the media and bash them for their own mistake. >> i gave you plenty of time, i asked you the question the first time and you went on and gave me three points. you are saying it could not wait, yes or no? it couldn't wait? >> that's a silly question. >> there are no silly questions, mr. ambassador. and here's why. in an effort to politicize the
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attacks and deaths of american diplomat and three other heroes, mr. romney had not only dealt a major blow to his campaign but he had given his opponent a gift. the ability to politicize and even without trying, by appearing to take the high road and just answering a reporter's silly question. >> there's a broader lesson to be learned here. governor romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first, name later. ♪ >> president and secretary of state were front and center. the optics were in their favor and they knew it. and quite frankly, there was nothing the romney campaign could do to counter. yet in an odd contrast before the ceremony had even ended, mitt romney took to the stage in ohio to bash the very people who were paying tribute to the fallen. and from my perch here at the anchor desk and to many of you watching at home, you wrote me
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and told me it felt weird, uncomfortable and sad. how could a man in a campaign who throws around the word patriot so often get this one so wrong? and that's tonight's "no talking points."
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let's get you up to speed on the day's headlines. four american service members shot to death today in afghanistan by someone wearing an afghan policeman's uniform. it's the third time in three days when afghan forces have turned their weapons on nato troops and killed them. kabul, afghanistan today, an angry crowd protesting an online film clip that muslims feel is an insult to their faith. the film was made in the u.s. and triggered angry demonstrations in at least 20 countries. you're about to see the man responsible for that film. cnn now has pictures of him given to us by one of the
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actresses in that clip. that is coming up. there's a new addition to the mcdonald's menu, a calorie count. next time you ask if you want fries with that, you'll know how many calories go along with it. other fast food giants may have to follow suit as soon as next year. changes are part of the president's health care overhaul. chicago ateachers accused of breaking the law. mayor rahm emanuel says the see will file for a court injunction to force teachers back to work. scenes like this show the rising tensions in chicago, just hours ago, the teachers union postponed a vote till tuesday on a tentative contract deal. lawyers for britain's royal family are going after the photographer who took topless pictures of cate middleton. those photos had been splashed in a french tabloid and i
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tallian one as well. lawyers are filing a criminal complaint for breach of privacy. a full bladder and heavy foot led to a woman being handcuffed in texas. the dash cam video from the king police department is from thursday. sergeant gene gahabe was seen pulling offer a car going 16 miles over the speed limit. then the regular run of the mill traffic stop turned into this. >> let's hurry up. i have to go to the bathroom. >> let me see your driver's license and insurance, please. >> listen to me. >> no, i want to see your driver's license and insurance, please. >> i'll give it to you in a minute. >> no, you'll give it to me now or i'll take you to jail. >> go ahead. >> get out of the vehicle. get out of the vehicle. >> you are hurting me. i'm going to report you hurt me.
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you twisted my arm. oh, good lord. >> you're under arrest. >> chief of police issue a statement. here's what it says. the incident has been reviewed thoroughly by the keene police department and the city of keene. the sergeant did not violate state laws and in fact was following department policy in regards to violators not providing information. that woman in the video was later released without ever leaving the scene. she did get off -- didn't get off scot-free. she was issued sigh takings for speeing and failing to show identification. next -- ♪ the catholic church and the e-mail faux pas that got them sued. >> when you're caught with your pants down you have to say something.
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a gay married couple suing a church in massachusetts for alleged discrimination. it all started ben the diocese decided not to sell them a mansion. the couple say the negotiations were dropped because they're gay. what makes them think that? this e-mail was accidentally sent to them from the church's monsenior. because of the potential of gay marriages there, something you shared with us yesterday we are not interested in going forward with these buyers. i spoke to one-half of the couple earlier. >> and the monsignor in the e-mail said this was sent after the allegations were dropped. is that true, were they dropped? >> no, i don't. no, i don't.
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the negotiations were not dropped. in fact, i know there had been some talk about financing being an issue. there had been no applications for financing that had been submitted. so i take it that we -- the smoking gun in front of us, it's an uncomfortable position for the monsignor, i understand that. when you are caught with your pants down, you have to say something and i think that's what was going on. >> the church claims they did not know that you were gay and they said the negotiations fizzled simply because you could not secure financing for your first offer and your second one was unacceptable. you look at the e-mail, the e-mail says there's a whole thing about gay marriage. so what is going on here? >> well, i am not sure what is going on. i do know that the issue of having gay marriages at the property was certainly something
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that the church was concerned about since that's what they articulated in their e-mail. whether or not they knew that jim and i were gay is something that we have yet to discover. i believe they did simply because there was no discussion of gay marriages being held at the property. >> we have something for you that has never been shown on american television. pictures of the man responsible for that online video that has inflamed anger against the united states across the arab world. it's a poorly produced youtube clip that had a script and paid actors. now the actors say they were lied to and had no idea what kind of movie they were really making. here is cnn's miguel marquez in los angeles. >> do you like hollywood? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: lilly had been in hollywood a week when she
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answered an ad on craigslist for an action adventure film called "desert warrior. ". >> first job. >> reporter: she met this man seen here for the first time on u.s. television. she says he was in charge of everything. >> was it your sense he was the writer and producer? >> yes, i believe he was the writer. he definitely was the producer. he was the one writing checks and handing out the money, and running the show. >> reporter: under the name sam basile? >> yes. >> the shoot weird, but never heard talk of politics or religion. they thought they were making a low-budget cheesy film with a little plot. >> this was the middle east, 2,000 years ago, and who is george. >> george turned out ton the >> george turned out to be the muhammad character. >> he did. and lilly had no lines, but was asked to come in after the shooting was done to dub her
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voice over that of another actress. other actresses she says went to the same sound studio also after the shooting was done to record the words that sparked a firestorm. >> brought the actors in in post and had them say specific words like muhammad, for example. then they took -- it was isolated. it wasn't in context. say muhammad. why? >> she says his real name was nakoula basseley nakoula. there was no intention of the film's real story. >> i had no idea. this was a movie i thought nobody was ever going to see. >> you were shaking when you heard about the ambassador's death. >> yes. >> she feels betrayed by a man who pretended to be a filmmaker, a friend, sam basile, nakoula
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basseley nakoula. >> he wanted things a certain way. he knew what he was doing. he was playing us all along. >> reporter: the making of this film, the dark motivation would be oscar-worthy if hateful were a category. >> miguel marquez joins me live from los angeles. this story keeps going on and on and on. but do you believe this actress that she really didn't know what kind of movie she was making? >> yes. this is the second actor in the film i've spoken to. we've talked to others off film. they had a feeling something was not right about this. they thought it was a weird set but actors always think that sets are weird and hollywood is a weird place. they didn't think much about it. the script was so bad, the acting so bad, the direction so bad, the writing so bad, the weird bit really didn't come to fruition. the information that mr. nakoula
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put forward was so compartmentalized. he thought this through so well, they didn't have a clue. >> we know he was supposed to have limited access to the internet, given his probation conditions. any other line that he may have crossed? >> a very big lane. he went by sam basile at that phone. he told one of our producers his name was sam imeal. he told the associated press his name was something else. one of conditions of his probation is that he go by no other name other than his legal name, nakoula basseley nakoula. unless he got permission from his probation officer. this is a man who was going by sam basile, he had 17 aliases before he was convicted of fraud and identity theft. don? >> great work, thank you, miguel
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marquez. we appreciate it. we're awaiting the return of a u.s. astronaut and two russian cosmonauts. we go live as their capsule lands in just a moment.
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there is, it's just landing, after four months of floating around the earth, the soyuz is landing now. the u.s. astronaut, joe acaba. the russian soyuz just landed.
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that was after 125 days in space. they are landing now in kazakhstan. we're looking at that, this is coming from nasa television. the northern part of the country is where it is, in the desert region. i expect the odd feeling, the affects of gravity on your body. we'll show it to you now as it hit. let's take a look. do we have it? all right. we'll bring to you if we can. a medical team will meet them there and we hope that they are a-okay. let's take a listen now to -- there it is. >> mission control houston, 6 1/2 minutes until touchdown. there's our first video of the soyuz tma 04-m dexrnding under its main parachute on monday morning in kazakhstan. it is 8:46 in the morning on monday at the landing site.
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in the center seat of the descent module. >> let's take a look now at the moment it landed. >> and once again, the final moments of the dissent of the soyuz spacecraft under its shoot. you can see one of the russian search and recovery helicopters that will land within seconds after touchdown. and standing by for touchdown. and touchdown confirmed. the soft landing engines firing. the touchdown has occurred at 9:53 p.m. central time, 10:53
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p.m. eastern time, just north in kazakhstan. they are now back on earth. >> you saw it. we turned that video around for you right here on cnn. the russian soyuz just now landing in kazakhstan. he was supposed to come home from afghanistan three months earlier but instead he was killed in the country's helmond province. he was gunned down by the man he was training. >> reporter: this is the game he was supposed to see, back home on leave from afghanistan where he helped train afghan forces. the 21-year-old marine had only two daz left before heading home to see his brother play varsity high school football for the first time. but before getting word that he was to go home early, he phoned his dad. >> he told me that he -- i have to stay here till november. he says i'm not going to come
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home. and i was -- i don't understand. he goes, i'm going to -- you have to be able to tell mom and justin and shane, you know, that i'm going to be killed over here. i said out in the field or whatever? he goes, no, in our base. >> reporter: then it happened, greg was gunned down august 10th by the very forces he was training. like he said, it happened inside the base. and by his phone calls and letters, he knew it was coming. and on one particular night on guard duty he had a run-in with the trainee. >> a guy turned around and said to greg, we don't want you here an we don't need you here. what did you say? he said it again. why would you say that? i'm here giving my life to you to help you, to do better for yourselves. the guy started tormenting him all night. >> reporter: his dad says greg spent the rest of the night with the trainee. >> pitch black out and all he kept on saying over and over
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again is we don't want you, we don't need you, we don't want you. >> reporter: building up local security is considered the lynch pen of nato strategy for withdrawal but attacks by trainees have become disturbingly more frequent. families like the buckleys say it's a sign america's longest war has gone on long enough. >> i basically collapsed and, of course, his mother collapsed. we were both on the floor. >> reporter: greg's two brothers refused to cry, at least during the day. >> one night i went into shane's room and he was on the end of the bed and his head was hanging over the end of the bed. i thought he had dropped water on the floor. he was just bawling. my heart broke for him. and later on that night, i heard noises from justin's room. and i went inside and he had a
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pillow over his face, 4:30 in the morning screaming at the top of his lungs. heartwrenching. and i asked shane and justin, why don't you cry during the day? they both turned around at the same time and said, we can't, we have to take care of you and mom. >> with the community behind them, the buckley family is coping as best they can and justin, oceanside's star running back wearing cam mow with his team to honor greg, makes sure to salute his fallen brother each time he scores. >> justin, that's it, kid. >> if justin was here, what would you tell him. >> that i love him and i miss him. that's about it. >> than

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